EricChu - Jan 7, 2011 3:53 pm - Voted 10/10
Nice!Photos like this of my beloved Switzerland always make my heart beat faster! :-)
Although, as I stated in my other comment, I don't remember there having been any glacial lake there when I went to Val Roseg in 1991...
rgg - Jan 7, 2011 6:14 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Nice!Oh, better get that heart checked then, because this won't be the last one I've got from the Bernina area. Let me know when it's safe to post more!
EricChu - Jan 7, 2011 7:28 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Nice!I could be wrong of course...I took the horse carriage to the restaurant at the end of the valley, together with my girl-friend, so I wasn't really at the utmost end of the valley. Still, a lake of that size would surely have been visible from there - or not?
rgg - Jan 7, 2011 7:58 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Nice!We walked from the railway station at Pontresina to Chamanna Coaz. Where the road stops - which is the end of the line for the carriages - a hiking trail goes deeper into the valley.
Between 3 and 4 km on the trail, we reached the lake. From the map, I knew it should be there, but we didn't see it until we were right at its shores, because it was blocked by a big moraine wall.
The lake isn't very wide, but it is more than 1.5 km long. Whether it existed before 2006, I couldn't say. However, over time I'm sure it will disappear, either because it gets filled up by rubble from the glaciers, or because the moraine wall blocking it is breached by some catastrophic event. My money is on the former, the moraine was quite big.
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